Michel Coquette
Michel Coquette
Documentary Film Directing
Instructor in SBI Film Exercise (2013-2019)
Michel Coquette is a sound engineer who started his career in 1982 recording voices and music at the radio department of the Belgian Radio and Television. He switched to postproduction in 1987. From 1989 on he is using hard disk editing/recording, working on the first non-linear audio system in Belgium. He specialized gradually in recording post syncs, foley and in multichannel mixing.
He teaches sound postproduction in different film schools. He attended the two last editions of the School Of Sound Seminars in London (2011, 2013). In 2011 he assists Walter Murch, Daniel Deshays and Larry Sider on a 9 days course "Sound In Film" in Gent. He mixes student shorts and animation shorts.
He freelances in different studios in Belgium and France. He has been consulted to solve acoustical problems in classes and screening rooms. During the summer of 2017 he mixed in 5.1 CERES, a 72min documentary.